Most of the "holes" have been evolved out of the language, rather than there being any significant chance of it evolving to fill them. Almost every language that's had an influence on the English language had one or more of the missing features, and many of them even made it into English, but have long since been deprecated, as someone mentioned below with "thou", "thee", and "thine". Another instance would be the insistence on the part of some people to call certain objects "she" or "he" instead of "it", despite English having dropped the feminine and masculine references for objects.

and I have no idea how I managed to use the wrong spelling for hear in the above post. WTF?

Some people will address an individual as "y'all", though, despite most of us wanting to use "y'all" as a plural of "you".

In that sense, "all y'all" would be a plural of "y'all", though I generally concur that it's more common to here it used for emphasis rather than as a plural form, similar to the way people might use "all of you" as opposed to just "you" when asking a group of people to do something.

Actually, one of the problems is that it's non-trivial for most users to even discover that the security of their system has been compromised, on any operating system, until it's far too late (or has been compromised in so many different ways that the system succumbs and fails to function in the expected manner).

If someone comes along and steals your car, it's not there when you get back. If they steal the car stereo, there's probably glass all over the place and the stereo's gone. Even if the take it for a joy ride and return it there may be clues, like the position of the seat and mirrors, the odometer reading, the amount of gas in the car, or a change in the position in which it is parked.

If your computer becomes part of a botnet, the best thing for the controlling interests to do is make sure that it's very hard to tell that your computer is infected. A virus or worm might sit on the machine for months infecting other systems before finally unleashing a destructive payload, for the simple reason that this makes it more effective. Tracking malware will hide itself in order to have more time on the system to gain more information for the advertisers that bought the information.

So the most effective, and damaging for the overall security of the network, forms of malware are those that are hardest to find. If the system doesn't tell you that there's suspicious behavior going on, and most users don't know how to see what processes are running on their system (and don't know what processes should be running on their system), then all of the security looks like hand waving, because they don't see a difference between the compromised and secure systems.

Half of the functionality in security products is alerting the user to potentially harmful activity taking place on their computer or network. Of course end users hate when these alerts get in their face and require action on their part, so if they're given a chance to disable them, they do so. The trick is alerting the user without annoying the user, and making it easier to disable a security warning when it's being overly paranoid than it is to disable the entire security system.

My simple analogy is not for a car, but rather my house: if I had to use the older style of home alarm system where I keyed in a security code and then attempted to exit the house while it armed itself, or come into the house and key in the code before the alarm went off, I would never use it. I'd rather depend on the keys that are only effective against those that would probably be stopped just as easily by the fact the door is closed. However, since my house's alarm has a keychain remote like most cars do, it's a simple matter of locking up the house and arming or disarming from outside. Additionally, the alarm is obnoxiously obvious when someone opens/breaks a window, trips a motion sensor, or opens a door. There's simply no chance of someone getting into the house without me knowing it unless they find a way to bypass the system.

Bypassing the system may turn out to be fairly easy for someone that knows how to do so, I really don't know. However, the system is there to handle a higher percentage of possible intruders than the simple lock that my wife can bypass in 30 seconds or less.

Make it easier for the user to understand what is really going on behind the scenes on their machines. Let them see the network traffic, where it's going, and what processes are using it. Make it easy for them to figure out what is supposed to be running on their system and what is not.

It's not quite the same as trying to educate a whole office full of users with different ideas and levels of knowledge about computer security, but my wife has taken quite well to basic home user computer security in a way I never really expected to see from someone that didn't grow up with it. She still needs a little work in regards to browser use (Firefox vs. IE) and the sites she visits (coupon sites are evil), but the basics of dealing with email and attachments, clicking on suspicious links, and keeping reasonable passwords on most of her accounts have set in pretty well.

Of course, she also doesn't have to spend much time on a completely open internet connection, either.

I don't work for EA, I'm just going on the fact that people still buy their garbage. Why do people keep buying the crap they produce if they're unhappy with the product? The easiest way to get the message across to them is to stop giving them money. Sure, they'll blame it on piracy, but if you're not buying and not pirating their games, let them play the blame game until they find themselves being bought up by someone else.

Teach your kid that it's important to maintain a high degree of accuracy when typing and you won't have these problems. FOaD and ESaD were favorites when I was in Jr. high, and we certainly didn't have texting or IM.

Of course, my handwriting is terrible, and though I used computers most of my life I didn't learn to type quickly (and with more than 2 fingers per hand) until I was in my twenties. Both my handwriting and my typing are better than my father's, though.

Looking at how my daughter handles things vs. how my youngest brother-in-law (a teenager) handles things, or even how I believe I handled things as a kid, I think most of it comes down to teaching a kid to treasure the things they have. My brother-in-law breaks or loses something, and he ends up with a new one that's better than what he had before. He's almost better off breaking stuff than taking care of it. My daughter asks for something, if it's of any significant cost and/or value, it could be a while before she gets it, and she may have to give something up for it. If she breaks it, it could be a long while before she sees a replacement. She seems to value things much better than her uncle, and she's 12 years younger than he is.

On the other hand, there are some people, like my wife, that simply don't value physical things. In a lot of ways, it's a gift, because she doesn't miss it when it's gone, and she doesn't really want much. In other ways, though, not valuing something means not caring enough to think about the way things should be treated, and generally putting more value in what she can get for something than in what she paid for it, or would have to pay to replace it.

Frankly, I'm surprised a kid in West Virginia knows which side they were on. Then again, maybe they actually teach the state's history to kids that go to school there.

That's why the games industry has been working to effectively sew up the digital distribution channels before smaller companies can come in and take over. In a lot of ways on the PC side Valve already has done this, though there are a lot of other companies making a name for themselves in this realm. Consoles aren't likely to escape the big publisher mentality, though, as someone generally steps up to risk the cost of developing and marketing the hardware in order to get a cut of the game sales from everyone that develops for the system. Homebrew games and applications are bigger than ever on the handheld consoles, but the manufacturers still get a cut from the majority of the games running on their systems.

But adding more people to content development can lead to less cohesive results. Therefore adding more people in that department also requires better skills in the management of those types of people, which are inherently hard to manage and have high communication costs. That and you have to spend more time in the design stages developing a cohesive plan for the game that can be passed on to the content developers so that they understand the overall vision to which they are expected to adhere (and which they will ignore on a whim).

EA has been closing up shops left and right, just like most other large publishers (though really there aren't many large publishers these days, it's basically EA and Blizzard/Activision for PC games).

I think the main issue is that EA specifically, and the industry in general, has spent a lot of time in the last decade complaining about the rising costs of producing games, especially in the console and PC realms, yet EA is willing to spend 3x their development budget on marketing, the cost of which is pretty well within their control.

Of course, EA is also one of the companies that does pretty well controlling their development costs for their biggest selling games. They have a very limited time frame for development of their sports titles, and they do a fair job of deciding what improvements they can make year-to-year to still meet the time constraints and still keep most of their user base happy. They also figured out that it was worth more money to them to buy exclusive contracts with the leagues and player unions than to attempt to continue competing with other publishers and developers to make a better game in those time constraints.

You may also run into greater post-release costs due to incompatibilities between the various parts of the baby, or even outright rejection of the implanted parts.

Additionally, this would require specialized developer knowledge in assembling the parts properly to avoid these types of reactions. Therefore, you may have to pay the women more to do the same job in less time if you ever want the baby to come out right in the time constraints. As it goes: we can develop it quickly, we can make it good, and we can make it cheap, but you can only pick two, and you might still only get one.

On the other hand, Google Books is also a tool for librarians when the books are not available locally, as many libraries supply internet access to members of their community that can not afford to have it at home. That, and generally librarians are always concerned about privacy issues, whether they directly impact the libraries or not.

I recently looked into possibly going into the field myself, and found that my interest perhaps wasn't as unusual as I first thought, as there is a massive overlap with computer science and information systems, including a concentration in Informatics for people going for their Masters in Library Science.

Unfortunately, most of the work for a modern librarian is focused on acquiring and maintaining funding to maintain the library, and far too many communities face losing these resources.

Essentially American DVDs have always had previews like VHS did. Unlike VHS, though, most American DVD players can be told by the disc not to allow the user to fast forward or skip certain content, which of course if the feature is used is always used for the copyright notice and sometimes used for the previews.

Disney in particular was very bad about this practice, though they've gotten better more recently (and sorry, it's one thing I can't put my foot down on, I have to let my daughter have the occasional Disney Princess movie to keep my sanity intact).